Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins born November 19 1979 is an American filmmaker After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine 2003 he directed his first feature film Medicine for Melancholy 2008 for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature He is also a creative collaborator and a member of The Chopstars collective Following an eightyear hiatus from feature filmmaking Jenkins directed and cowrote the LGBTQthemed independent drama Moonlight 2016 which won numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Picture Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney He became the fourth Black person nominated for Best Director and the second to direct a Best Picture winner He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 to critical praise and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes He is also known for his work in television In 2017 Jenkins directed Chapter V of the Netflix series Dear White People In 2021 he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad based on the novel of the same name The series received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination and won a Peabody Award In 2017 Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Jenkins licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia